#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet with an overflow
of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.-Andrew Solomon author of The Noonday
Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book
Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary
Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse much worse than you
think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise you are
barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible-food shortages refugee emergencies
climate wars and economic devastation. An epoch-defining book (The Guardian) and this
generation's Silent Spring (The Washington Post) The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue
of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it-the
ways that warming promises to transform global politics the meaning of technology and nature
in the modern world the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The
Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to
the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime the responsibility to avoid it now
belongs to a single generation-today's. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE
WRITING AWARD The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject
is climate change and its method is scientific but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a
meticulously documented white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon
engulf our warming planet.-Farhad Manjoo The New York Times Riveting. . . . Some readers will
find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should
be too.-The Economist Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer
something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily
banal language of climatology' in favor of lush rolling prose.-Jennifer Szalai The New York
Times The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring.-The Washington Post The
Uninhabitable Earth which has become a best seller taps into the underlying emotion of the
day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.-Alan Weisman The New York Review of
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